Chapter 42
After Li Su left, Lu Bu settled everything and fell asleep peacefully.
Just as Lu Bu was sleeping soundly, inside and outside Luoyang City were stolen because of his orders.
Chen Wei, the commander under Lu Bu, led 500 soldiers from Luoyang, and successfully spread the rumors that Dong Zhuo wanted to harm Luoyang throughout Luoyang City, and even to counties around Luoyang.
The rumors of Dong Zhuo's military discipline in Xiliang were corrupted and burning, killing, looting everywhere were endless. It was just that because Xiliang was thousands of miles away, the citizens of Luoyang didn't care at all, but one day these beasts were coming to Luoyang, and everyone was panicked. For a moment, the city of Luoyang was in chaos.
Soon, under the intentional guidance of more than 500 people including Chen Wei, many people from Luoyang, especially those living in Luoyang, helped the elderly and young, and left the northern gate of Luoyang overnight, crossed the Yellow River through the Xiaopingjin Ferry, and moved to the only pure land under the legendary Han Dynasty, Jizhou.
At this time, the three city gates in the north of Luoyang were controlled by the army under Lu Bu. The three city gates were opened overnight to allow Luoyang people to escape from the city.
Many days ago, Lu Bu asked his soldiers to gather 500 ships from both sides of the Yellow River, 400 ships for Luoyang people to cross the river to Jizhou, and the other 100 ships transported the money and goods that Lu Bu had looted in Luoyang City in the past few days, grain, oxen and farm tools he purchased, and continuously transported to Jiguan.
Wei Xu escorted along the way and sent all the supplies to Jiguan. Wei Xu returned to Luoyang to pick up and send Lu Bu another task. Jiguan was guarded by Zhang Liao, waiting for Lu Bu's army to set off to Jiguan. After the two armies merged, they began to march towards Jizhou.
At the fourth update of that night, a carriage covered with black cloth at the side door of the palace quietly drove in. Several people got off from above. Under the guidance of Empress Dowager He's confidant palace maid, he entered the Empress Dowager's bedroom.
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The night passed quickly. When Lu Bu woke up, he realized that it was already noon. Since he woke up by lightning, he had rarely slept so well.
Maybe he had a good sleep, and Lu Bu's head had never been sober, so he wrote dozens of names on the Zuo Bo paper (Note 1) bought by Yan Mu, all of which were savage talents that he could recall.
Since recruiting Xun Yu and others, they were avoided by them, Lu Bu's ambition and confidence to "take the heroes of the world for their own use" have been severely hit, so that he could not determine that he would definitely be recruited by him. He even doubted whether the recruitment of General Zhendong and Governor of Jizhou could attract those talents. You should know that many of the talents here refused to be recruited by the Duke's Mansion in succession, and some even refused to be recruited by General He Jin.
While Lu Bu was staring at his name in a daze, a rumor from the captain of the Red Guard Lu Tong came from outside the tent: "Former General Chief Chen Lin asked for a meeting!"
Chen Lin? Chen Lin, one of the seven sons of Jian'an?! Chen Lin, who made Cao Cao sweat all over his head?!
Lu Bu had just gotten up from the bed and wrote a lot of names while he was awake after sleeping. In fact, he had not even put on his shoes. When he heard Chen Lin ask for a meeting, Lu Bu didn't bother to wear shoes and rushed out of the Central Army tent in his battle robe.
Chen Lin's face was as white as jade, her beautiful beard was floating under her jaw, and she stood with a carved feather fan in her hand, holding a head held high outside the camp of Xiaopingjin, with a calm and composed manners of a famous scholar.
Chen Lin suddenly saw Lu Bu in his battle robe and rushed over from the camp with barefoot, running and shouting: "Brother Kong Zhang, with you, you will be able to fight thousands of troops!"
Chen Lin was speechless, and the eagle-shaped fan slid from her hands.
He had only heard of Zhou Gong's hearts, but he had never seen that superior could do it, and even Yuan Shao, who was known as the most polite and polite, could not do it. But at this moment, he saw Lu Bu, who was wearing a golden crown and a flower robe, dressed in an extremely neat manner. When he heard that he was visiting, he was so hurrying that he didn't even have time to wear his shoes.
Chen Lin knew that Lu Bu's adoptive father Ding Yuan was assassinated the night before yesterday, and Lu Bu didn't sleep all night before yesterday and needed to sleep for a while last night, so he naturally got up late in the morning.
If it were other superiors, they would definitely be able to dress up. Chen Lin could only stand under the sun and wait hard. I remember that when he paid homage to He Jin, he actually waited for two hours.
When he arrived at Lu Bu, as soon as the guard informed him, Lu Bu rushed out of the camp like a flying man. The so-called "thirsty for talent" is nothing more than this.
Perhaps in the eyes of Yuan Shao and other scholars, Lu Bu's move was very rude, but in Chen Lin's view, it was precisely the innocent heart.
Chen Lin originally had no choice but to seek refuge in Lu Bu for the sake of the tribesmen of Jizhou. Now he was suddenly glad that he had decided that maybe he would no longer be secretly betrayed this time, and He Jin died, in return for a better lord.
Especially when Chen Lin was extremely excited when he heard the praise of "You are worth a thousand troops". He, Chen Lin, Chen Kongzhang had never heard of the lord He Jin before, and he had never heard of the lord Yuan Shao who he once wanted to surrender. "A scholar died for his confidant", Chen Lin made up his mind secretly.
Chen Lin bowed her head and bowed: "Chen Lin has met the lord."
Lu Bu originally thought that he would use his perfect tongue to take a few days to attract this talented man. Unexpectedly, his unintentional mistake just now actually won Chen Lin's favor by mistake. It seems that these talented men are emotionally impulsive. As long as they show that kind of sincerity, they will be moved and will not care about so many backgrounds, interests, etc.
In fact, Lu Bu was wrong. Chen Lin came to join him at the beginning because he was in charge of Jizhou and could protect Chen Lin's tribe. However, Chen Lin would not tell Lu Bu this.
Lu Bu quickly pulled Chen Lin up, welcomed him into the central army's tent, and asked him to sit in the chair.
Chen Lin was very curious about the chair, so Lu Bu explained the origin of the chair: "Lu Bu was a military general. Because he knelt for a long time, he had to get this chair from the Hu people in the Western Regions, which can be rested between marches, which is very convenient."
Chen Lin was able to change three lords in history, and was also a person who was in power and change. She was not a corrupt scholar. She was not opposed to such things that came from the Hu people. She sat on it and felt very comfortable, so she said unconsciously: "My lord, can you give this chair to me?"
Lu Bu smiled slightly and said, "Kong Zhang, if you can write an article to attract all the people in the world to use this chair, what's the difficulty for me to give you a hundred chairs?"
Chen Lin thought for a while, confidently said, "What's the difficulty? Chen Lin will write it right away."
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Note 1: Eighty years after Cai Lun's death, a papermaking expert appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, named Zuo Bo, whose courtesy name was Ziyi, and from Donglaiye County (now Laizhou City). Zuo Bo was a famous scholar and calligrapher at that time. In the practice of carefully studying calligraphy, he felt that the quality of Cai Hou's paper could be further improved. He studied papermaking skills since the Western Han Dynasty with the scholars Mao Hong and others at that time, summarized Cai Lun's papermaking experience, and improved the papermaking process.
The bark, hemp head, rags, etc. are raw materials. The paper made with new technology has uniform thickness, fine texture, bright and neat, and is suitable for writing. It is very popular among literati at that time. It is called "Zuobo Paper". It is known as "Three Famous Products" in the study together with Zhang Zhi's pen and Wei Danmo. Cai Yong, a historian who is proficient in calligraphy, "every time he writes, he will not write without Zuobo Paper." "Buxuezhai Collection" of Jingxian Hu Yunyu said: "Ziyi's paper is beautiful and brilliant."
Chapter completed!